My BBC Radio 4 thing
Part one of the BBC Radio 4 programme, Cat Women of the Moon, is up on iPlayer. It’s an interesting mix of…
Read morePart one of the BBC Radio 4 programme, Cat Women of the Moon, is up on iPlayer. It’s an interesting mix of…
Read moreThe Lambda Literary Foundation released its new award eligibility criteria today: LGBT authors will be recognized with three awards marking stages of…
Read moreAlisha Baker, We Dance the World Into and Out of Creation, relief print on paper hand-painted frame acrylic on wood, 14″x17″ $215….
Read moreFrom lippenheimer, a thoughtful review of Slow River, pondering the consequences of straight/queer equality: One of the main questions that classic feminist…
Read moreClarion West is the best genre writing workshop in the world. It’s a six-week writing boot camp in Seattle. Each week is…
Read morethis is all mine… I spent some time yesterday pondering domain names for the Hild novels. Then I went shopping. I got…
Read moreJust found this Radio Times review of “Cat Women of the Moon,” the 2-part BBC Radio 4 documentary about sex and gender…
Read moreYesterday, I saw this tweet from @oatmeal. (You have to go click the link and look at the photo or this post…
Read moreI’ve just finished the second draft of Hild. It weighs in at 962 pages: 196,221 words. It started out at 976. I…
Read moreHere’s a guessing game for you. Is this jar Roman (from first century Britain) or is it from the ancient city of…
Read moreAs anyone who’s read Patrick O’Brian knows, it’s best to fight duels without clothes (cloth pushed into a wound via blade or…
Read moreNo, I’m not referring to the, ah, classic 1953 movie starring Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory and Marie Windsor, but to a BBC…
Read moreAlisha Baker, “Dancing with Chaos” (18″ x 24″) A reminder to come join me and Kelley at Alisha’s Baker’s gallery show here…
Read moreI still haven’t forgiven Elvis for dying. I wake up cross on August 16th every year. (No, not really. But every year…
Read moreThree years ago I wrote a blog post called You’ve been warned, a combination rant, promise, and manifesto. A couple of weeks…
Read moreFrom Vi Hart, two nifty videos of ways to play with maths. And I mean play. It’s Sunday. That’s what Sunday is…
Read moreI’m busy with Hild today so I thought I’d amuse you with this notion: making books of chocolate. If your definition of…
Read morephoto taken with crapcam, sorry about that I woke to time out of time: a still morning draped in silence and mist….
Read moreThe honeysuckle is blossoming, twining vinously over everything. Sort of like my Hild sentences. The vines, though, will just get bigger and…
Read moreOne of our favourite artists is Alisha Baker. We own four of her paintings. Three of them live in the Alisha Baker…
Read moreThis strikes me as a step forward. Publishing Innovation Awards has announced the QED seal, a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval™ for…
Read moreI posted this yesterday on my other blog. Most of you, I’m sure, don’t read that. So: —- One of the big…
Read morehttp://cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com/storage/xplayer/yo033.swf This looks interesting in a metaphor-made-concrete way: time is money. I’m out for the rest of the day: Hild is demanding…
Read moreSomewhere in Seattle there’s a nurse with a crushed hand. My fault. She was holding my hand while another nurse was trying,…
Read moreAfter two years as a Trustee of the Lambda Literary Foundation, it’s time for me to change gears. It seems like a…
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